Oooooh! I had one of the very first CBR900RR machines to arrive and it was certainly a doozy!
I felt that, compared to other bikes I had owned, it posessed true Warp Drive. Nimble, quick and eminently flickable, it actually tended to turn inside the line.
Eventually, I sold her and hung up my helmet. There are simply too many idiots behind the wheels of Minivans, twits yakking on cellphones and deranged morons clotting the roads to dodge anymore. One of them was going to get me.
I have a buddy who raced competitively for Kawasaki for a while. He was nearly killed by a 21 year-old mother who turned around in her seat to scream at her kids, crossed the lane and ran him over at a stop sign. He wasn’t even moving.
I drive an F-350 Duallie now. Go ahead. Hit me.
I’ve done the same thing.
Everyone I know that rides and has been in an accident has been hit or forced off the road by another driver. To say that fast bikes cause more accidents is like saying powerful handguns kill more people. There are more bikes on the road, period... and that will lead to more accidents.
Last bike was a Kawasaki ZX-7R. I liked the CBR better!